Hierarchy Quotes

In the master there is a servant, in the servant a master.

The younger brother must help to pay for the pleasures of the elder.

Ladies and gentlemen are permitted to have friends in the kennel, but not in the kitchen.

The soldier takes pride in saluting his Captain,The devotee proffers a knee to his Lord,Some back a mare thrown from a thoroughbred,Troy backed its Helen, Troy died and adored;Great nations blossom above,A slave bows down to a slave.

We cannot all be masters, nor all masters Cannot be truly followed.

The most insupportable of tyrannies is that of inferiors.

The apprentice and the master love the master in different ways.

In the world there are four greats, and the king is one of them.

But there is another and greater distinction for which no truly natural or religious reason can be assigned, and that is the distinction of men into kings and subjects. Male and female are the distinctions of nature, good and bad the distinctions of heaven; but how a race of men came into the world so exalted above the rest, and distinguished like some new species, is worth inquiring into, and whether they are the means of happiness or of misery to mankind.

There still shines the most important nuance by virtue of which the noble felt themselves to be men of a higher rank. They designate themselves simply by their superiority in power (as "the powerful," "the masters," "the commanders") or by the most clearly visible signs of this superiority, for example, as "the rich," "the possessors" (this is the meaning of 'Arya,' and of corresponding words in Iranian and Slavic).

It's all about who's where on the food chain. When I'm the story editor, I expect my writers to follow my vision. When I'm working for another editor, I'm obliged to follow their vision.

Fishes live in the sea, as men do a-land; the great ones eat up the little ones.

It does not follow from the separation of planning and doing in the analysis of work that the planner and the doer should be two different people. It does not follow that the industrial world should be divided into two classes of people: a few who decide what is to be done, design the job, set the pace, rhythm and motions, and order others about; and the many who do what and as they are told.

The rights a man arrogates to himself are related to the duties he imposes on himself, to the tasks to which he feels equal. The great majority of men have no right to existence, but are a misfortune to higher men.

Most discussions of decision making assume that only senior executives make decisions or that only senior executives' decisions matter. This is a dangerous mistake.

The greater number of men are merely corporals.

Animals... are there merely as a means to an end. That end is man.

Everybody makes bad decisions. I am sure I have made my share of them over 40 years of service. Or I have made good decisions and have been overruled. The real challenge, when you are overruled, is to remember who the boss is and don't take it personally.

All mankind is divided, as it was at all times and is still, into slaves and freemen.

For if leisure and security were enjoyed by all alike, the great mass of human beings who are normally stupefied by poverty would become literate and would learn to think for themselves; and when once they had done this, they would sooner or later realise that the privileged minority had no function, and they would sweep it away. In the long run, a hierarchical society was only possible on a basis of poverty and ignorance.

The master sometimes serves, and the servant sometimes is master.

The notion that the colonel need be a better man than the private is as confused as the notion that the keystone need be stronger than the coping stone.

Some will always be above others.

Strip the human race, absolutely naked, and it would be a real democracy. But the introduction of even a rag of tiger skin, or a cowtail, could make a badge of distinction and be the beginning of a monarchy.

Doesn't make any difference who we are or what we are, there's always somebody to look down on.

Keep the boss aware. Bosses, after all, are held responsible by their own bosses for the performance of their subordinates. They must be able to say: "I know what Anne [or John] is trying to do."

A hierarchical society is only possible on the basis of poverty and ignorance, this new version is the past and no different past can ever have existed. In principle the war effort is always planned to keep society on the brink of starvation. The war is waged by the ruling group against its own subjects and its object is not the victory over either Eurasia or East Asia but to keep the very structure of society intact.

The mass of mankind has not been born with saddles on their backs, nor a favored few booted and spurred, ready to ride them legitimately, by the grace of God.

Some will always be above others. Destroy the inequality today, and it will appear again tomorrow.

In every society some men are born to rule, and some to advise.

We adore titles and heredities in our hearts and ridicule them with our mouths. This is our democratic privilege.

Don't go getting mixed up in the business of your betters, or you'll land in trouble too big for you.

May not the complaint, that common people are above their station, often take its rise in the fact of uncommon people being below theirs?

The privileges of the side-table included the small prerogatives of sitting next to the toast, and taking two cups of tea to other people's one.

Suge is the boss of Death Row, the don, you understand? But im the underboss, the capo. That's my job to what's best for Death Row

We cannot all be masters.

Books take their place according to their specific gravity as surely as potatoes in a tub.

Everyone may be called "comrade," but some comrades have the power of life and death over other comrades.

All nobility in its beginnings was somebody's natural superiority.

A private should preserve a respectful attitude toward his superiors, and should seldom or never proceed so far as to offer suggestions to his general in the field. If the battle is not being conducted to suit him, it is better for him to resign. By the etiquette of war, it is permitted to none below the rank of newspaper correspondent to dictate to the general in the field.

All people seem to be divided into'ordinary'and 'extraordinary'. The ordinary people must lead a life of strict obedience and have no right to transgress the law because?theyare ordinary.Whereas the extraordinary people have the right to commit any crime they like and transgress the law in any way just because they happen to be extraordinary.

The Party is not concerned with perpetuating its blood but with perpetuating itself. WHO wields power is not important, provided that the hierarchical structure remains always the same.

An two men ride of a horse, one must ride behind.

The bureaucracy is a circle from which one cannot escape. Its hierarchy is a hierarchy of knowledge. The top entrusts the understanding of detail to the lower levels, whilst the lower levels credit the top with understanding of the general, and so all are mutually deceived.

It is an interesting question how far men would retain their relative rank if they were divested of their clothes.

The bureaucracy is a circle from which no one can escape. Its hierarchy is a hierarchy of knowledge.

The familiarity of superiors embitters one, because it may not be returned.

So doth the greater glory dim the less:A substitute shines brightly as a kingUntil a king be by.

The heavens themselves, the planets, and this centre Observe degree, priority, and place, Insisture, course, proportion, season, form, Office, and custom, in all line of order.

We should not be too familiar with the lower orders or with women.